Patents Assigned to Hyogo Prefectual Social Welfare Corporation
  • Patent number: 5443524
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a teaching playback swing-phase-controlled above knee prosthesis which enables an external data setting to set the mechanism of the teaching playback swing-phase-controlled above knee prosthesis for conditions that enable the mechanism to operate for motions according to a walking speed. The teaching playback swing-phase-controlled above knee prosthesis includes a structural body having a thigh frame and a leg frame pivotally joined to the thigh frame for swing motion relative to the thigh frame, an air cylinder having a cylinder body, a piston axially slidably fitted in the cylinder body and provided with a valve, and a piston rod having one end fixed to the piston and the other end pivotally joined to the thigh frame, and a stepping motor for adjusting the opening of the valve of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Hyogo Prefectual Social Welfare Corporation
    Inventors: Seishi Sawamura, Sakuya Nakajima, Kunio Amemori, Hidehisa Oku, Akio Nakagawa, Ichiro Kitayama, Mikio Yuki, Shiro Horiguchi, Yoshihisa Araki, Shigeru Yuki, Toshihiro Hamada